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As information professionals, librarians are often vocal and active advocates of open access. These librarians believe that open access promises to remove both the price and permission barriers that undermine library efforts to provide access to scholarship, as well as helping to address the serials crisis. Librarians and library associations also lead education and outreach initiatives to faculty, administrators, the library community, and the public about the benefits of open access.
Many library associations have either signed major open access declarations, or created their own. For example, IFLA have produced a Statement on Open Access. The Association of Research Libraries has documented the need for increased access to scholarly information, and was a leading founder of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). Librarians and library associations also develop and share informational resources on scholarly publishing and open access to research; the Scholarly Communications Toolkit developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association is one example of this work.
At most universities, the library manages the institutional repository, which provides free access to scholarly work by the university's faculty. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries has a program to develop institutional repositories at all Canadian university libraries. An increasing number of libraries provide publishing or hosting services for open access journals, with the Library Publishing Coalition as a membership organisation.
Critics of various open access initiatives claim that there is little evidence that a significant amount of scientific literature is currently unavailable to those who would benefit from it, and that literature not covered by an institution's subscriptions may be obtained through interlibrary loan. Interlibrary loan requests may be time-consuming for library workers, and for researchers waiting for fulfillment of requests. Open access online is often immediate, making it more suitable than interlibrary loan for fast-paced research.
In 2013, open access activist Aaron Swartz was posthumously awarded the American Library Association's James Madison Award for being an "outspoken advocate for public participation in government and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed scholarly articles". In March 2013, the entire editorial board and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Library Administration resigned en masse, citing a dispute with the journal's publisher. One board member wrote of a "crisis of conscience about publishing in a journal that was not open access" after the death of Aaron Swartz.
Libraries and librarians
[edit]As information professionals, librarians are often vocal and active advocates of open access. These librarians believe that open access promises to remove both the price barriers and the permission barriers that undermine library efforts to provide access to the scholarly record,[1] as well as helping to address the serials crisis. Many library associations have either signed major open access declarations, or created their own. For example, IFLA have produced a Statement on Open Access.[2]
Critics of the various open access initiatives claim that there is little evidence that a significant amount of scientific literature is currently unavailable to those who would benefit from it,[3] and that literature not covered by an institution's subscriptions may be obtained through interlibrary loan.[4] Interlibrary loan requests may be time-consuming for library workers, and for researchers waiting for fulfillment of requests. Open access online is often immediate, making it more suitable than interlibrary loan for fast-paced research.[5]
Librarians also lead education and outreach initiatives to faculty, administrators, and others about the benefits of open access. For example, the Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association has developed a Scholarly Communications Toolkit.[6] The Association of Research Libraries has documented the need for increased access to scholarly information, and was a leading founder of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).[7][8]
At most universities, the library manages the institutional repository, which provides free access to scholarly work by the university's faculty. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries has a program[9] to develop institutional repositories at all Canadian university libraries.
An increasing number of libraries provide publishing or hosting services for open access journals, with the Library Publishing Coalition as a membership organisation.[10]
In 2013, open access activist Aaron Swartz was posthumously awarded the American Library Association's James Madison Award for being an "outspoken advocate for public participation in government and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed scholarly articles".[11][12] In March 2013, the entire editorial board and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Library Administration resigned en masse, citing a dispute with the journal's publisher.[13] One board member wrote of a "crisis of conscience about publishing in a journal that was not open access" after the death of Aaron Swartz.[14][15]
The pioneer of the open access movement in France and one of the first librarians to advocate the self-archiving approach to open access worldwide is Hélène Bosc.[16]
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[edit]- ^ Suber, Peter (2003). "Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians". College & Research Libraries News. 62 (2): 92–94, 113. doi:10.5860/crln.64.2.92. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ "IFLA Statement on Open Access (2011)". IFLA. 6 March 2019. Archived from the original on 31 August 2020.
- ^ Davis, Philip M. (2010). "Does open access lead to increased readership and citations? A randomized controlled trial of articles published in APS journals". The Physiologist. 53 (6): 197, 200–201. ISSN 0031-9376. PMID 21473414.
- ^ Goodman, D (2004). "The Criteria for Open Access". Serials Review. 30 (4): 258–270. doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.009. hdl:10760/6167.
- ^ Baich, Tina (2015). "Capturing the Benefits of Open Access in Interlibrary Loan". doi:10.7912/C2KW2F.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ ALA Scholarly Communication Toolkit Archived 8 September 2005 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Archived 15 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Arl.org. Retrieved on 3 December 2011.
- ^ Open Access for Scholarly Publishing Archived 19 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Southern Cross University Library. Retrieved on 14 March 2014.
- ^ CARL – Institutional Repositories Program Archived 7 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Carl-abrc.ca. Retrieved on 12 June 2013.
- ^ Lippincott, Sarah (5 July 2016). "The Library Publishing Coalition: organizing libraries to enhance scholarly publishing". Insights. 29 (2): 186–191. doi:10.1629/uksg.296. ISSN 2048-7754. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ Kopfstein, Janus (13 March 2013). "Aaron Swartz to receive posthumous 'Freedom of Information' award for open access advocacy". The Verge. Archived from the original on 15 March 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
- ^ "James Madison Award". Ala.org. 17 January 2013. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
- ^ Brandom, Russell (26 March 2013). "Entire library journal editorial board resigns, citing 'crisis of conscience' after death of Aaron Swartz". The Verge. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ^ New, Jake (27 March 2013). "Journal's Editorial Board Resigns in Protest of Publisher's Policy Toward Authors". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014.
- ^ Bourg, Chris (23 March 2013). "My short stint on the JLA Editorial Board". Feral Librarian. Archived from the original on 24 August 2014.
It was just days after Aaron Swartz' death, and I was having a crisis of conscience about publishing in a journal that was not open access
- ^ Poynder, Richard (2009). "The Open Access Interviews: Hélène Bosc" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 October 2013.